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Freedb.org Ending

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the this-too dept.

haroldag writes "Freedb, the free music database used by tons of CD ripping software, has been shut down due to a disagreement among its developers. One of its developers used a data dump from the original freedb.org and is providing the service at freedb2.org, though, and will be adding features and posting them at his site as they become available. Unfortunately, a database dump or source code for freedb2.org is yet nowhere to be found."

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  1. So what does this mean right now? by spoco2 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I have no CDs on hand here at work to see what happens when I try a db lookup, but does it mean that there is no info anymore on freedb on the lookup? Or is it just that any new entries have no-where to go?

    What about the mirrors?

  2. Re:no honor amongst theives by f0dder · · Score: 0, Redundant

    You're gonna get flamed cuz you're a farking tard.
    It's a CDDB system for looking up metadata on
    commercial audio CD it has little to do w/piracy?